Just look at that parking lot. Have you ever seen anything so beautiful in your whole life? Dying grass and sparse desert brush. Sad palm trees and sandy, rolling hills capped with giant satellite dishes and wind-powered turbines. This is a meth-dealer's paradise! Honestly, though, Rockstar's Hollywood quality set design on a massive scale now has a near-Naughty Dog level of polish. All those shadows authentically cast by the sun add to the scale of a San Andreas sunrise. When every asset renders like butter, the pieces will coalesce to form the most tangible GTA landscapes ever. The parking lots are livelier and...
2. The Wildlife Is Wilder
A brand new foliage system will bring a much fuller presence of raw greenery to the countryside, providing our upgraded wildlife roster with richer backdrops upon which to frolic and graze. The fur on dogs, on the newly added felines we've seen and on these deer here is most definitely, well... furrier. Lusher plant-life means more depth of field reference, an effect these new images use quite beautifully. We really just feel like going on a hike right now. That landscape really does feel more organic with all that fancy 3D grass. If we're getting a sneak peek at the future of Red Dead, we're far from disappointed. We're far from anything normal, safe, or real when we're...
1. Chasing The Vinewood Dream
Rockstar's epic, Southern Californian expanse is a simulation-based, parody playground masterpiece. When you bask in the hearty glow of a Golden State sunset, knowing full well you're about to pull some mortally asinine stunt, you can't help but feel pride and freedom as a gamer. That wide open feeling will spread its wings when the raw power of our new systems works its magic. The chaos of more cars and bodies in traffic. The emergent stories that make GTA such a dynamic gameplay experience. The best laid plans of mice and men. The Vinewood dream is to go anywhere, do anything, and for every plan to go horribly wrong. What's your Vinewood dream? What's the first thing you're itching to do in the new-gen San Andreas on November 18th? Let us know in the comments below!
Real Science Magazine called James' addiction to video games "sexually attractive." He also worked really hard and got really lucky in college and earned some awards for acting, improv and stand-up, but nobody cares about that out here in LA. So... He's starting over fresh, performing when He can. His profile picture features James as Serbian, vampire comic Dorde Mehailo with His anonymous Brother and Uncle at the Nerdmelt Showroom in West Hollywood. In James' spare time, he engages in acting, writing, athletics, hydration, hours of great pondering and generally wishing you'd like him.
